Issue 159 Christianity on the seas

Seafaring from the ancient world to today

Christianity’s spread by sea in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Christian care for seafarers in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Men who ministered by and at sea

Three Port Chaplains on Calling, Care, and the Church’s Mission Today

Facts and anecdotes about Christianity on the seas

Readers respond to Christian History

Sea stories and the dynamics of life at sea hold endless dramatic possibilities.

Scripture often alludes to the ocean

Understanding the ocean in ancient religion

Brendan the Navigator and Irish missions by sea

Prayers and hymns for worship on the water

The slave trade that came by sea

A look at the traditions that sailing communities carried across the Atlantic

Alcohol, reform, and the American seafarer

From 2,000 BC to today

Stories of transforming faith at sea, taken from past Christian History issues and other CHI resources

Maritime mission in the nineteenth century

The official hymn of British and American navies

Maritime technology and seafaring ministry

The unseen work of chaplains aboard military vessels

Christians in the United States Merchant Marine

Questions for reflection: Christianity on the seas

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